Which would You choose?

[Green Parts Highlight Main Points]I have an interesting idea I want to share with all of you today. First off, some of you know that the Empire has a few problems right now. The damaged economy, new members skipping the tutorial or not staying in EMC for too long, and not enough new members joining everyday. Well while I was showering, I thought of an interesting idea. This idea is giving new members a free, limited supporter-ship voucher. Now immediately this sounds like a bad idea but keep reading.A limited supporter-ship voucher would give a user the ability to use some supportership features such as creating a spawn point at daylight or using the supporter chat... More details later on.The idea is that when a new player logs into the Empire for the first time, they would be in the tutorial room. Now they have the choice to /skip the tutorial or a new message would pop up saying "Complete the Tutorial to earn a free LIMITED supportership!" This would give incentive to make the new player complete the tutorial. At the end of the tutorial, the user would earn a free limited supporter voucher which they could redeem. Their supporter-ship would last a lot less longer than a regular supporter (so 1 month). So probably something like 1 or 2 weeks of limited supporter-ship.

Now to get to the point on why this would be useful:First, by making them complete the tutorial, there would be less confused players going around asking for help that they could've learned from the tutorial. Second, by giving them this limited supporter-ship, it would give them an idea of how having supporter would be nice, which might make a many of them want to buy a month of real supporter-ship --- By doing so, the Empire earns more money. And by earning more money, it could be used to expand the empire or buy more advertisement spots. And this would thus, bring in more players who would repeat the cycle of buying supporter-ship.Third, This would help the Economy because this is basically adding rupees inside the system. People would be willing to buy up these vouchers, and of course, the spending of money would help the economy. Fourth, because of the supporter having 1 or 2 weeks of use, some new players may want to stay in the game longer so they wouldn't waste their supporter voucher. Which is good

Obviously there is a con to this...Some real supporters wouldn't like this because they would feel that it is unfair how new players immedately become supporter... plus the supporter-chat would get annoying

Now some features of the limited supportership would be:1 or 2 weeks of supporterSupporter chat featuresBed SpawnIncrease of daily rupees to maybe 200 rupees?Supporter AuctionsOther supporty things.(But this limited supporter wouldn't have maphide, tnt, utopia, etc.)

I don't think they should have access to supporter chat or supporter auctions(what if they win one after they bid in it?) They should have access to features like map hide, as that is one of the big selling points for supporter ranks.

And this could be a good alternative to increasing daily rupee bonuses.

And we should definatly NOT include the ability to claim more residences. Maybe give them Iron? Of Gold without the 2nd claimable res?

I agree with all of this. I think it short be a short, 48-72 hour period, should NOT be diamond, DEFINITELY cannot claim residences, and I think that it shouldn't be a voucher, I think it should automatically activate upon tutorial completion.

If you have ever found yourself paying for HBO during a month when regular viewers can watch for free...

I like the idea of giving all players a taste of Supporter perks, but any way I can think of to do it, is giving away something other people are paying to get.

Also, I'm not sure many new players would even understand what they are getting. We have to coach many of them through finding and claiming a Residence as it is. Adding a Voucher that they can use now or later, enables some Supporter features and not others, and is for a limited time would confuse people who are sometimes already pretty confused.

I think this idea would be a lot like those free sample people you see at those food places.You grab a sample, say "I am so going to buy this" or something.You don't.

What is invalid in your argument is this thread isn't talking about samples at food places; this is about samples in VIDEO games. This would only apply to new members too, and it would give the new members a rough idea on how supportership works, and soon if the empire gets REALLY popular, those new members will want to buy supporterships because they already know how it works out.